Cotubanamá National Park (formerly National Park of the East) has been admitted to the Protocol for Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife—commonly referred to as the SPAW Protocol. The protocol is part of the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (the Cartagena Convention).
The Ministry of Environment points out that this elevates the protected status of the park. Saona Island, one of the most visited tourism attractions in the entire Caribbean, is located in Cotubanamá Park.
The designation is also a new milestone for conservation efforts in the Dominican Republic and the protection of flora and fauna.
With Cotubanamá, five protected areas fall now under this protocol that calls for the conserving of natural resources and the ecologically sound use and sustainable management of the...
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